6 Great Americana videos summer 2017

It’s time to present some of our new favourite videos, collected here for your convenience. When I say new it just means that they’re new to us. We just found’em and want to share them. They may be from the 30s and up to the present. Enjoy!

Colter Wall’s performs songs for CBC Music’s First Play Live. Set list:
0:00 Railroad Bill
2:57 You Look to Yours
8:14 Codeine Dream
11:47 Thirteen Silver Dollars
14:54 Motorcycle
17:24 Mule Skinner Blues
20:59 Kate McCannon

King Leg – Great Outdoors (directed by Gregory Alosio & Dwight Yoakam), new to me but clearly a Yoakam influenced act, with a bit of Roy Orbison thrown into the Bakersfield stew:

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6 good videos September 2016

Darling West. Foto: André Løyning
Darling West. Foto: André Løyning (borrowed from their web page)

 

We’ve collected some of the best new videos out in “web-land” (and some old that we thing will be worth your time) mid September 2016, enjoy!

It’s a true joy digging up these videos and it is a series (if not very regular).

Here are the first collections: Feb 2016 Part1, Feb 2016 Part 2, March 2016

Let’s start with a very nice clip of Robert Ellis.

Robert Ellis – “Drivin” from his latest album, Robert Ellis, released in June (This clip is from The Bluegrass Situation):

We will also give a big shout-out to Darling West, they recently released a wonderful album.

From their website:
Darling West was formed when the couple Mari and Tor Egil Kreken decided that the best way to get to spend some quality time together, was to create a common band project. They asked musical soul mate and guitar player extraordinaire Kjetil Steensnæs to join them, and Darling West was complete.

Their highly anticipated second album “Vinyl and a Heartache” was released on August 26th.

Darling West – A Nobody’s Song:

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